Stem cell treatment may cut new brain lesions in MS

[MSUK]

Stem cell treatment may cut new brain lesions in MS

Multiple sclerosis patients who had autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation had significantly fewer new lesions on MRI than those on mitoxantrone, Italian researchers have found.

In a randomized, controlled trial, CD34-positive hematopoietic cell transplant reduced the number of new T2 lesions by 79 per cent compared with mitoxantrone over a four-year study period, Giovanni Mancardi, MD, of the University of Genova in Italy, and colleagues reported in Neurology..... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/stemcells